Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note to Students; WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK?; SOURCES AND PROBLEMS; FINAL ADVICE; ORGANIZATION AND LAYOUT; SYMBOLS FOUND IN TEXTS; A Note to Instructors; MATERIAL FOR BACKGROUND AND COMPARISON; ANCIENT APPROACHES TO MYTH; MYTH AND HISTORY; PHILOSOPHICAL, RATIONALIZING, ANDALLEGORICAL APPROACHES TO MYTH; RELIGION AND MYTH; GENDER AND SEXUALITY; MYTH AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION; MATERIAL FOR MODERN INTERPRETATIONAND CLASSIFICATION OF MYTH; PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS; FINAL REMARKS; Maps; Genealogical Charts

TimelinesAcusilaus; Aelian; Aeschylus; Andron; Antoninus Liberalis; Apollodorus; Archilochus; Arrian; Babrius; Bacchylides; Bion; Callimachus; Cleanthes; Conon; Cornutus; Critias; Diodorus of Sicily; Eratosthenes; Euripides; Fulgentius; Hellanicus; Heraclitus; Herodorus; Herodotus; Hesiod; Homeric Hymns; Horace; Hyginus; Longus; Lucian; Lucretius; Ovid; Palaephatus; Parthenius; Pausanias; Pherecydes; Pindar; Plato; Plutarch; Proclus; Sallustius; Sappho; Semonides; Simonides; Sophocles; Statius; Theocritus; Theophrastus; Thucydides; Vergil; Xenophanes; Xenophon; Appendix One: Linear B Sources

Appendix Two: InscriptionsAppendix Three: Papyri; Appendix Four: Near East ern Myth; Note on the Texts and Translation; Names and Transliteration; Index/Glossary